Clearly, projectors are our top priority. On the other hand, $2 per
person per day is NOT too much money to pay for a small comfort. Look, my
people (and yours too) work like mad for four days, and all they ask for
is a darn cookie in the afternoon. Standards developers do not live by
coffee alone.

It isn't $2 per person per day. It is more like $3 per cookie! (Actually,
it is $3.07 including tax and service in Tampa, I just checked) Early
birds grab a handful. Late folks don't get any. There are hard feelings.
We get into the situation where we are spending effort to manage cookie
access into our agenda. The folks who are across the street or are on
another floor won't get cookies or will be handicapped with respect to
cookie notification and access. I want to keep the focus on our
work.

I really don't think we need to choose between
projectors and cookies. Our group votes unanimously for cookies. If I did
another straw poll on whether they would still support cookies even if it
took an $8 fee increase to pay for them, I think that we'd get the same
poll results. Sure, people could buy their own cookies, but they'd have
to go off on their own and lose the social experience.

Remember, the great thing about IEEE standards is that the individual
makes it work.

The great thing about 802 Standards is that they changed the world
without benefit of cookies. I could be wrong, but I believe that every
single published IEEE 802 Standard was done without the distraction of
Plenary Cookies.

If the individual soul needs a little
nourishment to get the work done, then I say let's not begrudge it.

Roger

Geoff

Since Geoff has
raised the issue of cookies, I had better follow through on
one of my action items from July. The cost for cookies over the
meeting
week has been (with approximate tax and service):
Site $/paid_attend
$Total Notes
LaJolla
$10.10
$8580 $30/dozen
Albuquerque $
6.75
$4035 $20/dozen
--Bob Grow